Interview Alumnus Wouter van Kempen (1993)

Current Occupation: Chairman, President and CEO of DCP Midstream Partners, LP and Chairman, President and CEO of DCP Midstream, LLC.

On 2 February 2017, Elsevier magazine sat down in Los Angeles with our alumnus, Wouter van Kempen. He moved out of the Netherlands in 1995, and currently lives in the USA. He still speaks fluent Dutch, but sometimes an Anglicism slips through.

“Here I have opportunities that I wouldn’t have gotten as fast in Europe, as I did here.”

Van Kempen is often confronted with his Dutch straightforwardness, yet it helps him right, at home and in his current position at DCP Midstream Partners.